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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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The Care and Share Food Bank last Friday gave out Christmas baskets of food to bout 150 clients, including families and a lot of elderly folks, said manager Carol Nordine. That number indicates need is up from past years. Last year’s big Christmas giveaway drew 115. A story in The Star recently reported that Second Harvest, a major food distributor to local food banks, is cutting back deliveries in Okanogan County. Care and Share is on the same route, but Nordine noted they only supply about 10 percent of the locals pantry’s supplies. Con...
An angel on high delivers a Christmas message to pilgrims through the Coulee Dam Community Church's live nativity scene Dec. 17. It included a brief movie about the Christmas story, stops to visit shepherds and sheep, a choir of angels (or at least they sounded like them), and, of course, the baby Jesus in the manger - plus a toddler Jesus meeting the three wise men when some say they actually would have arrived after following the path set by the Christmas star - for a year-and-a-half. - Scott...
STCU employees once again showed their passion for community service by documenting a record 10,000 hours of volunteerism in 12 months. The volunteers including 18 employees who served at least 80 hours of volunteerism for a single organization. Scores of others exceeded the 16 hours of paid time off that every STCU employee receives annually for volunteer activities. In response, STCU is providing a record number of year-end Volunteers Count grants of $25 to $1,000. Those grants go to every organization where an employee reported at least 12...
While his mom takes a photo, Josue gets to tell Santa his wishes for Christmas at the Eagles Lodge Saturday afternoon during a party the club threw for kids. - Scott Hunter photo...
Ninety-four children in 43 households had wrapped Christmas packages delivered to their homes Saturday, Dec. 17 thanks to Trees of Sharing 2022 volunteers who supported the project by making cash donations or purchasing gifts for children who might not have otherwise received one this season. Trees of Sharing began in the Coulee in the mid-1980s with the express objective of assuring each child enrolled in the local school district would receive a gift at Christmastime. Every year since the...
Children talk and stare at Santa and Mrs. Claus, who stopped at Mason City Memorial Park in Coulee Dam Dec. 14 in an event arranged by the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce. It also featured other characters popular during the season, such as Elsa. Cocoa around the fire was popular too. Firefighters helped by making the place look like daylight with big lights on their fire trucks. - Scott Hunter photo...
We just want to tell the community and every single person that has helped our families after the devastating fire that took our home away from us last week that we can never say thank you enough or show the true appreciation that we have for you all. This community is so loving and amazing at stepping up to help those in need. We want to mention everyone individually, but that is impossible as we don’t know who you all are, other than wonderful souls. But please know that your compassion is felt and returned to you in abundance. We can n...
What have we learned since the 2020 election? No matter how ill-founded the lie, if continually repeated for two years--the Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen--many people will believe it. Repeating lies has been utilized, sometimes successfully, by presidential candidates before. But previously it’s been used before election, not continually repeated for two years thereafter, never to subvert our democracy, and terminated with electoral results accepted. Besides promoting the Big Lie, Cathy McMorris Rodgers has successfully...
When I was in grade school, my best friend was Jon Skovlin. His father ran the local Penny’s store, and sometimes I worked with Jon and put together trikes, bikes, and wagons. The store sold a lot of these. Jon’s dad would pay us for assembling the toys. That’s when I decided that I didn’t want to do that kind of work later in life. That was kind of funny because my dad could do just about anything. Raising a family during the Depression, you didn’t just hire people to do tasks you didn’t know how to do. My dad learned how to do things by n...
Christmastime is the season of hope and joy — hope that even when times are dark, we can find the light and joy that follows. The greatest gift the world has received is the birth of Christ and his salvation of humanity. The Christmas season is a time to reflect, to prepare, to spend time with family, and to celebrate. During this time, we must also be grateful and remember the contributions and sacrifices our forefathers and military service members endured to ensure our freedoms. We are blessed to have the freedom to celebrate the season o...
The Holiday Season is an especially difficult time for anyone grieving lost loved ones. Evergreen wreaths placed on veterans’ graves across America help to ease that pain. More than 2.5 million red-ribboned wreaths were placed by thousands of volunteers, including many family members, on December 17. Those wreaths are made from clippings of balsam firs dedicated to deceased veterans. Each tree growing in Maine has the “dog tags” identifying the fallen service member. The trees are living year...
Toyoko Spence, 85, was born on August 21, 1937 in Fujisawa, Japan and passed away peacefully with her daughters and family by her side in Mead, Washington on Thursday, December 15, 2022. Toyoko met Dick Spence while he was overseas serving in the Navy. They married in Tokyo, Japan on December 22, 1964. Later, they were stationed in Oahu where they welcomed their first daughter, Pam. After Dick was discharged, they lived in Nespelem for several years before they moved to Coulee Dam and had...
Edwin Bernard Kendall, 89, passed away on December 19, 2022 in Spokane, Washington. He was born on July 17, 1933, to parents Joseph Kendall and Frances (Higginbotham) Kendall. The graveside service will be on December 27 at 11:00 am at Spring Canyon Cemetery in Grand Coulee, WA. The funeral will be held on December 27 at 12:00 pm at Grand Coulee Community Church, 405 Center Street with a reception to follow....
Care and Share Food Bank Closed Care & Share Food Bank will be closed Dec. 23 and 30 for the holidays. Join our Facebook Group. Questions call Pastor shawn at 633-2566. AA Meetings in the Local Area Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held Monday through Friday from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul at 633-3377 days or 633-3345 evenings. New Hope Group meetings are held Wednesdays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center. These are open and non-smoking. A new Alcoholics Anonymous group is meeting each Saturday at noon at the Gra...
Grand Coulee Police 12/12 - A man on Schreiber Road reported that a cargo trail had been broken into and two boxes and a tool bag were taken along with various tools. Police took photographs of the crime scene as well as footprints in the snow. It seems that a lock was “defeated” by whoever stole the items, and removed to enter the trailer, according to the police report. - Police shot an injured deer near the intersection of Continental Heights and Federal Way after determining it was the most humane thing to do for it. 12/13 - Police che...
Jennifer Puckett, Vice President, Loan Operations Manager at North Cascades Bank, recently graduated from the Washington Bankers Association's Executive Development Program. This year-long course is designed to cultivate the next generation of banking leaders. The curriculum includes courses that focus on the important economic, regulatory and competitive pressures facing the banking industry. Puckett has been with North Cascades Bank for 13 years. Having started as a teller, she now leads the...
The Raiders topped a mixed weekend with a very large lead Monday night over White Swan in Coulee Dam, beating the Cougars 85-44. The win came on the heels of a one-point loss to Omak on Saturday, which itself had followed a huge victory over Brewster's Bears, 71-60, on their home court, a game about which Raider Coach Jeremy Crollard had not been optimistic due to past experience with uneven officiating. "We left it all on the court when it came to Brewster," Crollard said. The Raiders played...
The Lady Raiders met a challenge by White Swan Monday night, fresh off a defeat by the Omak Lady Pioneers Saturday, to win 64-46. Starting off slow in the first quarter, Lake Roosevelt trailed to finish it behind three points, 11-8. And by the half the Lady Raiders had just reversed the advantage to lead 27-23. The pace was about to change. After the halftime break, Lake Roosevelt went into dominate mode, racking up another 37 points while holding White Swan again to 23 more. "The girls came...
The City of Grand Coulee seeks community applicants for AWC Center for Quality Communities Scholarship Applications are due by December 31, 2022. The City of Grand Coulee is now accepting community applications for the AWC Center for Quality Communities scholarship. The scholarship is available through a statewide competitive process for students who are active in leadership through their city government, community, or school. CQC will award up to ten$2,500 scholarships in March 2023. One applicant will be submitted to CQC by each city after...
Call for bids to create a website/domain for Center Senior Living Center Senior Living is a 501c 3 non-profit with the goal of converting the former Center School in Grand Coulee to a top-quality 60 bed assisted living and memory care facility. The board will accept proposals to create a domain and build a website for this project. The proposal should include examples of your work and previous experience. Proposals should be returned to Center Senior Living no later than January 15th, 2023. Return bids to: CSL, PO Box 748, Grand Coulee, WA...